CVE-2023-47038

7.0 HIGH
Published: December 18, 2023 Modified: November 04, 2025
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Description

A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3128
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Broken Link Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056746
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Mailing List Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3128
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Broken Link Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056746
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/12c313ce49b36160a7ca2e9b07ad5bd92ee4a010
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/7047915eef37fccd93e7cd985c29fe6be54650b6
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/ff1f9f59360afeebd6f75ca1502f5c3ebf077da3
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/8400
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNEEWAACXQCEEAKSG7XX2D5YDRWLCIZJ/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UMDZZ4SCEW6FRWZDMXGAKZ35THTAWFG6/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5382delta#CVE-2023-47038-Write-past-buffer-end-via-illegal-user-defined-Unicode-property
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-47100
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47100.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

19 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
7.0 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.1%
26th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-122 CWE-787

Affected Vendors

redhat perl fedoraproject

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